{"tag":"language","articles":{"projects\/callmebymygender":{"key":"projects\/callmebymygender","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2023-05-07T17:52:06+02:00","publishedAt":"2023-05-07T17:52:06+02:00","group":null,"links":[{"icon":"globe-europe","colour":"primary","url":"https:\/\/callmebymygender.top\/","displayUrl":null}],"category":"projects","subcategory":null,"slug":"callmebymygender"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"callmebymygender","title":"callmebymygender","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_small.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022251.30590339893\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_small.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022251.30590339893\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei\u0027m not \u201ca female\u201d \/ \u201ca male\u201d \/ \u201ca they\/them\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eplease, just call me by my gender! \ud83d\ude44\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_big.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022960\u0022 height=\u0022502.61180679785\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_big.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022960\u0022 height=\u0022502.61180679785\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei\u0027m not \u201ca female\u201d \/ \u201ca male\u201d \/ \u201ca they\/them\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eplease, just call me by my gender! \ud83d\ude44\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["gender","language","vue"],"hasMore":false,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_small.png","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_big.png\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_mini.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022125.65295169946\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei\u0027m not \u201ca female\u201d \/ \u201ca male\u201d \/ \u201ca they\/them\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eplease, just call me by my gender! \ud83d\ude44\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_big.png\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/callmebymygender_mini.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022125.65295169946\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei\u0027m not \u201ca female\u201d \/ \u201ca male\u201d \/ \u201ca they\/them\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eplease, just call me by my gender! \ud83d\ude44\u003C\/p\u003E","words":16,"readTime":null,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/life\/quirks-of-polish-names":{"key":"blog\/life\/quirks-of-polish-names","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2017-06-26T10:04:27+02:00","publishedAt":"2020-04-18T13:47:00+02:00","group":"names","category":"blog","subcategory":"life","slug":"quirks-of-polish-names"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"quirks-of-polish-names","title":"Quirks of Polish names","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EHaving lived in three different countries and interacted with people from all around the world\nmade me realise that Polish names have some pretty unique quirks \u2013 to which, as a native speaker,\nI didn\u0027t give too much thought, while foreigners find them quite strange.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EHaving lived in three different countries and interacted with people from all around the world\nmade me realise that Polish names have some pretty unique quirks \u2013 to which, as a native speaker,\nI didn\u0027t give too much thought, while foreigners find them quite strange.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe most obviously tricky part is the pronunciation.\nMy name, \u201cAndrzej\u201d, is pronunced \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forvo.com\/search\/andrzej\/pl\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E like this\u003C\/a\u003E, with the \u201crz\u201d as \/\u0290\/.\nBut hardly anyone outside of Poland knows that and has no problems pronouncing it and writing it down.\nThat\u0027s why I usually go by \u201cAndre\u201d, as a simplification. And recently also as \u201cAndrea\u201d, to make it gender-neutral.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut dificult pronunciation is almost a given when talking about other languages. What\u0027s quite specific to Polish then?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E(Doubly) diminutive-able first names\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany languages have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diminutive\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E diminutives\u003C\/a\u003E.\nMany use them also for names (eg. English: Tim \u2192 Timmy, Richard \u2192 Dick, ...).\nSome languages even have a concept of double diminutive (Italian: casa \u2192 casetta \u2192 casettina).\nBut Polish just \u003Cem\u003Eloooves\u003C\/em\u003E its diminutives!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ksiega-imion.pl\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E ksiega-imion.pl\u003C\/a\u003E, my first name, Andrzej, can be tuned into:\nAndruszko, Andrzejek, J\u0119drek, J\u0119dru\u015b, J\u0119drzejek, Ondrzejek, Ondraszek, or Ondrysz.\nDiminutives of Katarzyna are: Kacha, Kachna, Kasia, Kasie\u0144ka, Kasiunia, Ka\u015bka, Katarzynka, Katka.\nOf Jan: Janek, Janosik, Jasiek, Jasio, Ja\u015b, Ja\u015bko. And so on, and so forth...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd the thing is: which one to use can depend on so many things... Most are regional forms.\nSome you can use more like a joke or a nickname rather than a diminutive of a name.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027ve noticed that many follow a three-level pattern. For instance:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EPiotr \u2192 Piotrek \u2192 Piotru\u015b\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGrzegorz \u2192 Grzesiek \u2192 Grzesiu\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMa\u0142gorzata \u2192 Go\u015bka \u2192 Gosia\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWojciech \u2192 Wojtek \u2192 Wojtu\u015b\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EJan \u2192 Janek \u2192 Ja\u015b\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E...\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first one is \u003Cem\u003Every\u003C\/em\u003E formal. That\u0027s what\u0027s in your documents. That\u0027s what you probably hardly ever use\noutside of formal situations \u2013 at least I wouldn\u0027t, if I had one of those names.\nI\u0027ve had friends and family members who would always go by \u201cWojtek\u201d and never \u201cWojciech\u201d, always \u201cGosia\u201d and never \u201cMa\u0142gorzata\u201d, etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt sounds so formal that my sister Ma\u0142ogrzata, upon moving to the UK,\nwouldn\u0027t go by the English version of her name \u2013 Margaret -\nbut by an artificial anglicisation of the Polish diminutive \u201cGosia\u201d: so she\u0027s now known as \u201cGosha\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second one is usually what you use informally, what friends call you, what the extended family calls you.\nThe third one is pretty intimate and quite infantile. You might call your romantic partners that, you might call children that.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsually. It all differs from name to name, it differs from person to person.\nSometimes it can get quite tricky to decide which form of one\u0027s name to use,\nin order not to sound too formal, or too familiar, or too childish...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s why I\u0027m very glad that my name is not one of those \u201cthree-level\u201d names.\n\u201cAndrzej\u201d just doesn\u0027t sound \u003Cem\u003Eso formal\u003C\/em\u003E that it would be weird to call your friend that.\nOne can form a diminutive of it, if one wants, but \u201cAndrzej\u201d itself is pretty neutral.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd they did, btw. My parish priest, for example,\njokingly called be \u201cJ\u0119drek\u201d, because he\u0027s from the mountains where this form is popular.\nAnd my mother called me \u201cAdu\u015b\u201d, completely ignoring the fact that it\u0027s not in the slightest a diminutive of \u201cAndrzej\u201d.\nIt is a male-ified version of a diminutive of a female name \u201cAda\u201d.\nBut she also called my brother \u201cMaciu\u015b\u201d, even though it\u0027s a diminutive of \u201cMaciej\u201d, not \u201cMarcin\u201d,\nand she called his daughter \u201cMagda\u201d even though her name is \u201cWiktoria\u201d, so what does she know \ud83e\udd37\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESumming up: the Poles can get pretty inventive with their names, and chosing a proper form can get tricky sometimes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDeclinable surnames\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd then there\u0027s surnames. Most are quite straight-forward, but there\u0027s one category that behaves a bit unexpectedly.\nThose surnames, ending in -ski and -cki, are basically adjectives, which means they get declined.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPolish, as a \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/genderneutralizacja-polszczyzny\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-people-carry\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E stronly genderised\u003C\/a\u003E language,\ndistinguishes between male and female way more often than necessary.\nSo for example, my surname is Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Eski\u003C\/strong\u003E, but my sister\u0027s is Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Eska\u003C\/strong\u003E.\nThe family name is Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Escy\u003C\/strong\u003E, but a subset of two or more women would be called Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Eskie\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u0027s look at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wachowskis\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Lana \u0026amp; Lilly Wachowski\u003C\/a\u003E,\ncollectively known as \u201cThe Wachowskis\u201d or \u201cThe Wachowski sisters\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf they lived and transitioned in Poland (or treated their Polish heritage more to the letter),\nthey would probably change not only their first names, but also surnames.\nIt would be \u201cLana Wachowska\u201d and \u201cLilly Wachowska\u201d, and collectively \u201csiostry Wachowskie\u201d.\nAlso, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forvo.com\/search\/Wachowski\/pl\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E pronunciation\u003C\/a\u003E\nwould be vastly different from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forvo.com\/search\/Wachowski\/en\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E anglicised version\u003C\/a\u003E, just saying...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EName day\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd finally, something more loosely related to names:\npeople in Poland celebrate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Name_day\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E name days\u003C\/a\u003E.\nIt\u0027s also popular in some other Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox countries,\nbut not as universal as birthdays, so worth mentioning, I guess...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBasically, if a person died and became a saint, there would be a \u201cmemory\u201d day put in the liturgical calendar,\nusually on the day of their death. That way the priest will know to read a short note about their life\nbefore the mass. Eventually, those names ended up in regular calendars,\nand people bearing those names started celebrating the feast day of their patron saint.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo in Poland you usually have two celebrations of your person every year \u2013\na birthday, usually celebrated with family,\nand a name day, usually celebrated by getting super drunk with your friends.\nUnless you\u0027re a child, then you only get a birthday, sorry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["name","first name","last name","surname","declension","declination","gender","language","linguistics","poland","polish"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EHaving lived in three different countries and interacted with people from all around the world\nmade me realise that Polish names have some pretty unique quirks \u2013 to which, as a native speaker,\nI didn\u0027t give too much thought, while foreigners find them quite strange.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EHaving lived in three different countries and interacted with people from all around the world\nmade me realise that Polish names have some pretty unique quirks \u2013 to which, as a native speaker,\nI didn\u0027t give too much thought, while foreigners find them quite strange.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe most obviously tricky part is the pronunciation.\nMy name, \u201cAndrzej\u201d, is pronunced \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forvo.com\/search\/andrzej\/pl\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E like this\u003C\/a\u003E, with the \u201crz\u201d as \/\u0290\/.\nBut hardly anyone outside of Poland knows that and has no problems pronouncing it and writing it down.\nThat\u0027s why I usually go by \u201cAndre\u201d, as a simplification. And recently also as \u201cAndrea\u201d, to make it gender-neutral.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut dificult pronunciation is almost a given when talking about other languages. What\u0027s quite specific to Polish then?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E(Doubly) diminutive-able first names\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany languages have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diminutive\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E diminutives\u003C\/a\u003E.\nMany use them also for names (eg. English: Tim \u2192 Timmy, Richard \u2192 Dick, ...).\nSome languages even have a concept of double diminutive (Italian: casa \u2192 casetta \u2192 casettina).\nBut Polish just \u003Cem\u003Eloooves\u003C\/em\u003E its diminutives!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ksiega-imion.pl\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E ksiega-imion.pl\u003C\/a\u003E, my first name, Andrzej, can be tuned into:\nAndruszko, Andrzejek, J\u0119drek, J\u0119dru\u015b, J\u0119drzejek, Ondrzejek, Ondraszek, or Ondrysz.\nDiminutives of Katarzyna are: Kacha, Kachna, Kasia, Kasie\u0144ka, Kasiunia, Ka\u015bka, Katarzynka, Katka.\nOf Jan: Janek, Janosik, Jasiek, Jasio, Ja\u015b, Ja\u015bko. And so on, and so forth...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd the thing is: which one to use can depend on so many things... Most are regional forms.\nSome you can use more like a joke or a nickname rather than a diminutive of a name.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027ve noticed that many follow a three-level pattern. For instance:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EPiotr \u2192 Piotrek \u2192 Piotru\u015b\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGrzegorz \u2192 Grzesiek \u2192 Grzesiu\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMa\u0142gorzata \u2192 Go\u015bka \u2192 Gosia\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWojciech \u2192 Wojtek \u2192 Wojtu\u015b\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EJan \u2192 Janek \u2192 Ja\u015b\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E...\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first one is \u003Cem\u003Every\u003C\/em\u003E formal. That\u0027s what\u0027s in your documents. That\u0027s what you probably hardly ever use\noutside of formal situations \u2013 at least I wouldn\u0027t, if I had one of those names.\nI\u0027ve had friends and family members who would always go by \u201cWojtek\u201d and never \u201cWojciech\u201d, always \u201cGosia\u201d and never \u201cMa\u0142gorzata\u201d, etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt sounds so formal that my sister Ma\u0142ogrzata, upon moving to the UK,\nwouldn\u0027t go by the English version of her name \u2013 Margaret -\nbut by an artificial anglicisation of the Polish diminutive \u201cGosia\u201d: so she\u0027s now known as \u201cGosha\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second one is usually what you use informally, what friends call you, what the extended family calls you.\nThe third one is pretty intimate and quite infantile. You might call your romantic partners that, you might call children that.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsually. It all differs from name to name, it differs from person to person.\nSometimes it can get quite tricky to decide which form of one\u0027s name to use,\nin order not to sound too formal, or too familiar, or too childish...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s why I\u0027m very glad that my name is not one of those \u201cthree-level\u201d names.\n\u201cAndrzej\u201d just doesn\u0027t sound \u003Cem\u003Eso formal\u003C\/em\u003E that it would be weird to call your friend that.\nOne can form a diminutive of it, if one wants, but \u201cAndrzej\u201d itself is pretty neutral.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd they did, btw. My parish priest, for example,\njokingly called be \u201cJ\u0119drek\u201d, because he\u0027s from the mountains where this form is popular.\nAnd my mother called me \u201cAdu\u015b\u201d, completely ignoring the fact that it\u0027s not in the slightest a diminutive of \u201cAndrzej\u201d.\nIt is a male-ified version of a diminutive of a female name \u201cAda\u201d.\nBut she also called my brother \u201cMaciu\u015b\u201d, even though it\u0027s a diminutive of \u201cMaciej\u201d, not \u201cMarcin\u201d,\nand she called his daughter \u201cMagda\u201d even though her name is \u201cWiktoria\u201d, so what does she know \ud83e\udd37\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESumming up: the Poles can get pretty inventive with their names, and chosing a proper form can get tricky sometimes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDeclinable surnames\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd then there\u0027s surnames. Most are quite straight-forward, but there\u0027s one category that behaves a bit unexpectedly.\nThose surnames, ending in -ski and -cki, are basically adjectives, which means they get declined.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPolish, as a \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/genderneutralizacja-polszczyzny.lite\u0022\u003E stronly genderised\u003C\/a\u003E language,\ndistinguishes between male and female way more often than necessary.\nSo for example, my surname is Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Eski\u003C\/strong\u003E, but my sister\u0027s is Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Eska\u003C\/strong\u003E.\nThe family name is Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Escy\u003C\/strong\u003E, but a subset of two or more women would be called Prusinow\u003Cstrong\u003Eskie\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u0027s look at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wachowskis\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Lana \u0026amp; Lilly Wachowski\u003C\/a\u003E,\ncollectively known as \u201cThe Wachowskis\u201d or \u201cThe Wachowski sisters\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf they lived and transitioned in Poland (or treated their Polish heritage more to the letter),\nthey would probably change not only their first names, but also surnames.\nIt would be \u201cLana Wachowska\u201d and \u201cLilly Wachowska\u201d, and collectively \u201csiostry Wachowskie\u201d.\nAlso, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forvo.com\/search\/Wachowski\/pl\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E pronunciation\u003C\/a\u003E\nwould be vastly different from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forvo.com\/search\/Wachowski\/en\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E anglicised version\u003C\/a\u003E, just saying...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EName day\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd finally, something more loosely related to names:\npeople in Poland celebrate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Name_day\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E name days\u003C\/a\u003E.\nIt\u0027s also popular in some other Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox countries,\nbut not as universal as birthdays, so worth mentioning, I guess...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBasically, if a person died and became a saint, there would be a \u201cmemory\u201d day put in the liturgical calendar,\nusually on the day of their death. That way the priest will know to read a short note about their life\nbefore the mass. Eventually, those names ended up in regular calendars,\nand people bearing those names started celebrating the feast day of their patron saint.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo in Poland you usually have two celebrations of your person every year \u2013\na birthday, usually celebrated with family,\nand a name day, usually celebrated by getting super drunk with your friends.\nUnless you\u0027re a child, then you only get a birthday, sorry.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":904,"readTime":4,"lang":"en"}}},"projects\/suml-simple-unambiguous-markup-language":{"key":"projects\/suml-simple-unambiguous-markup-language","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2019-03-20T18:30:00+01:00","publishedAt":"2019-03-22T21:11:00+01:00","group":null,"links":[{"icon":"brands gitlab","colour":"primary","url":"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Avris\/SUML","displayUrl":"SUML documentation"},{"icon":"brands gitlab","colour":"secondary","url":"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Avris\/SUML-PHP","displayUrl":"SUML implementation 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I know, I know, it\u2019s given me opportunities that I could never expect in my homeland of Poland, I\u2019ve spent amazing three years here, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/how-to-%C5%9Blub-jednop%C5%82ciowy-polak%C3%B3w-w-niemczech\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-people-carry\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E I married the love of my life here\u003C\/a\u003E... But now it\u2019s not time for good stuff. Now it\u2019s time for a complaint.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u2019s (some of) the reasons why I want to move out from this country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EI need to rant.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve had enough of Germany. I know, I know, it\u2019s given me opportunities that I could never expect in my homeland of Poland, I\u2019ve spent amazing three years here, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/how-to-%C5%9Blub-jednop%C5%82ciowy-polak%C3%B3w-w-niemczech\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-people-carry\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E I married the love of my life here\u003C\/a\u003E... But now it\u2019s not time for good stuff. Now it\u2019s time for a complaint.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u2019s (some of) the reasons why I want to move out from this country.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAusbildungssystem\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGermans don\u2019t care if you \u003Cem\u003Eknow\u003C\/em\u003E how do a job. Germans don\u2019t care if you already have \u003Cem\u003Eexperience\u003C\/em\u003E doing that job. There\u2019s just one thing they care about when deciding whether or not to hire you: your Ausbildung.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, ok, not necessarily. For high-level specialists it\u2019s skills that matter the most (but they probably have a degree anyway), and if you\u2019re happy with working without a contract or working your ass off at McDonald\u2019s or you simply have some luck \u2013 you can be fine without an Ausbildung as well. However, if you\u2019re a talented, clever, young person, speaking fluently in three languages, who emigrated right after their A-levels and didn\u2019t have a chance to start studies yet, but has ambitions beyond cleaning hotel rooms \u2013 it can be quite a while before your CV gets answered by anyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAusbildung is basically 3 years of working for a company, during which you \u201clearn\u201d how to do a given job. You\u2019re not an employee. You\u2019re not entitled to minimum wage, your working hours aren\u2019t regulated by law. The employer can theoretically abuse you as they wish. Why? Because if you get fired, you basically need to start all over again. Imagine working 10-12 hours a day for 500\u20ac\/month and after two years not being able to speak up, because those two years of sacrifice would get wasted.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso: if you need three years to learn how to be receptionist or a cashier in a supermarket, you\u2019re an idiot. It\u2019s not rocket science, it\u2019s not car mechanics, it\u2019s not IT. My husband was a fully self-sufficient, responsible and highly valued hotel receptionist after, like, two months or so of work. In Poland, a training for a cashier can take two days. Germans require a 3-year \u201ckaufmannische Ausbildung\u201d to handle that job.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u2019s funny about that (well, bittersweet) is that even the employers are suffering from this system \u2013 on their own wish. We\u2019ve heard some complaining how they can\u2019t find any workers nowadays... sure, the CVs are coming in huge numbers, but none of those people have Ausbildung, so \u003Cem\u003Ehow the hell am I supposed to trust them to use a cash register and talk to people?!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ERude people\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s a stereotype in Germany that Berliners are the most rude people you\u2019ll ever meet. You know how there\u2019s some truth to some stereotypes? That\u2019s definitely one of them.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u2019s start with smoking. Cigarette smoke is the stink I hate the most in the world. Not only is it nasty, it can also give you cancer. How could anyone force someone to breathe that shit in? \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/keiner-furzt-in-der-u-bahn\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-people-carry\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Of course, Berliners can\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNo smoking\u201d signs are totally ignored, the fire hazard of open fire in a subway station is totally ignored, the common decency of not producing cancerogenous stench when you\u2019re in a crowd of people who cannot go away is not an issue anyone worries about. Seriously, I\u2019ve wasted a ticket to the second day of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pyronale.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Pyronale\u003C\/a\u003E because during the first day I \u003Cstrong\u003Eliterally couldn\u2019t breathe\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/frische-luft_big.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Frische Luft in Berliner S+U-Bahnh\u00f6fe: 31% Stickstoff, 19% Sauerstoff, 50% Zigarettenrauch\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022642\u0022 height=\u0022778\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/frische-luft_big.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Frische Luft in Berliner S+U-Bahnh\u00f6fe: 31% Stickstoff, 19% Sauerstoff, 50% Zigarettenrauch\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022642\u0022 height=\u0022778\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut it\u2019s not only smoking. For instance, recently my husband got shouted at for \u201cfollowing\u201d some lady \u2013 while he was walking \u003Cem\u003Ein front of her\u003C\/em\u003E. People can\u2019t learn to stick to the right side when walking slowly up or down narrow stairs. They don\u2019t even think of taking off their backpack when it\u2019s crowded in the subway, or about letting people \u003Cem\u003Eout\u003C\/em\u003E of the train first, before they start squeezing in. Those are things that 5-years-olds are learning! There\u2019s plenty of situations that make you doubt human decency and basic intelligence. I almost forgot that cars letting pedestrians through on a crossing is a thing \u2013 in one day in Rotterdam it happened to me more times than in three years in Berlin.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ETransportation\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of transport and of comparing Berlin to Rotterdam: In the latter it\u2019s trams, bikes and pedestrians who are first-class citizens. Berlin is clogged with cars. In Rotterdam I saw half-empty parkings in the city centre! What I didn\u2019t see was idiots (pedestrians or cars) blocking a bike lane, which in Berlin or Szczecin is a sad norm.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDo you think air conditioning in public transportation should be a given in modern cities of the 21st century? If you\u2019re coming to Berlin, think again. Not even the newest models of U-Bahn or S-Bahn trains have (or are planned to have) AC. Busses do, but it\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.berliner-woche.de\/steglitz\/sonstiges\/fahrgaeste-spueren-klimaanlage-in-bvg-bussen-kaum-d32312.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E usually set up in a way, that you can\u2019t really feel that it\u2019s colder\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of newest models... Did you know that Berlin still uses wagons from 60s and 70s that are also what \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyongyang_Metro#Rolling_stock\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E the Pyongyang Metro is using\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt all makes them slow. They are unable to send trains in 1-2 minutes intervals, like they do in Warsaw or Madrid. They are unable to go fast, like a subway should. To both my current and previous job, the comute by bike (with all the lights, traffic, crappy bikelanes) takes roughly the same time as by subway (you know, with engines and designated tunnels just for the trains).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBVG is old, rusty and unpunctual. They don\u2019t see any problem whatsoever with \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/u-bahnmusikanten-verpisst-euch\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-people-carry\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E annoying musicians\u003C\/a\u003E or stinking people in their trains. Basically the only thing they do right is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BVG_Kampagne\/status\/938003895560884226\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E laughing at themselves for being this crappy\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EConstant construction\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) is already known in the world for being constantly unfinished. Billions have been spent on it, but the opening date keeps getting pushed forward and forward. I think it would be fair to say it\u2019s the biggest waste of money in Germany\u2019s modern history.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of airports: the two that Berlin currently has (and both to be replaced by BER) are both on tops of all the rankings of worst airports in the world. Whoever has flown from Sch\u00f6nefeld to, well, anywhere, will be able to give like tens reasons why SXF sucks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to less significant constructions, it\u2019s still not impressive. For instance the U-Bahn station I live near to. How long can it take to renovate a simple subway station? In Berlin, apparently, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BismarkDaisy\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E 2,5 years already\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BismarkDaisy\/status\/940549607242784768\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E and nobody really knows when is it going to be done\u003C\/a\u003E. But maybe let\u2019s not talk about the whole station. How long would it take to renovate a single entrance to a subway station? Nothing fancy, no escalators, no art, no fancy design, just some stairs with ~30 steps. I didn\u2019t count exaclty, but half a year is my lowest estimate. Seriously.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EApartment crisis\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERent prices in Berlin are skyrocketing, growing ~20% every year. No wonder: lots of people are coming, but hardly any new living spaces are being built. The city is huge (my daily commute is about one hour, without even leaving the city boundries), but it\u2019s unbelievably short. Berlin has virtually no skyline, no skyscrappers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDon\u2019t people want to built them, live and work in them? Sure, many do. But even more don\u2019t, including the Senate of Berlin claims \u201cit\u2019s not in the spirit of Berlin to build high\u201d. They are fighting like lions to protect the \u201cspirit of Berlin\u201d, which seams to mean crappiness, unimpressive buildings and horrible rent prices.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EPost\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeutsche Post and DHL are crap. Me and my husband weren\u2019t able to collect each other\u2019s mail before the wedding, even though we signed a relevant authorisation, twice. I can\u2019t even count the number of times when a package wasn\u2019t even attempted to be delivered \u2013 just marked as \u201creceiver not at home\u201d and left at the post office (and yes, we were home, we even saw the delivery guy from the balcony).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s not any specific post office, by the way. We had to visit at least five different post offices, some of which were kilometers away, because they were, apparently, all responsible for the deliveries to our address. And sometimes they were dropping my package at a shop ~500 m away, claiming that shop is our \u201cneighbour\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve sent plenty of formal complaints to them about situations like this. How many were answered in any meaningful way? Just one. Only because I was especially furious \u2013 they forced me to rent a car, so I could bring some balcony furniture home from a far away post office. I specifically ordered it online with home delivery to avoid problems with transport. But why would they care about doing their job? They didn\u2019t even attempt delivery, just made me pick it up myself. So how did they react to my complaint? They gave me a 10\u20ac voucher for sending packages (which I never do, so it expired already).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBTW, what the fuck is the big deal with apartment numbers in Germany? In Poland, Netherlands or US people simply have numbers on their doors, mailbox and intercom. Germans aren\u2019t convinced by that idea. So when a mailman wants to deliver something, they need to scan all the mailboxes or walk door to door to find the correct receiver. In Poland they could just think \u201cok, appartment 40, there\u2019s five doors on each floor, so it would be on the 8th floor\u201d \u2013 and that\u2019s it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere only the surname matters. So having multiple families called \u201cM\u00fcller\u201d in one building is problematic, having multiple people with different surnames sharing an apartment is problematic, delivering stuff is problematic, picking up stuff is problematic, moving out is problematic.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ENotice periods and customer rights\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA notice period of three months is crazy \u2013 at least from the customer\/employee side. But Germans seem to love it (it\u2019s the legally allowed maximum for services).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd as much as I can understand it for contracts like employment or rent (where the other party needs time to find a replacement for you), what sense does it make in case of mobile phone or gym membership? None, except for them counting on you to miss the deadline and automatically prolong your contract for another year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt kills flexibility and it kills my trust in the honesty of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.1und1.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E 1\u0026amp;1\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/superfit.club\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E SuperFit\u003C\/a\u003E etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen I was fighting with \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/mysn-schenker-kurwa-ma%C4%87-de\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-computer-speaker\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Schenker\u003C\/a\u003E for my right to warrantee service I came to a sad discovery: while Poland has a special government agency that supports customer rights and helps in the cases like mine, Germany does not. They do have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.verbraucherzentrale-berlin.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E  Verbraucherzentrale\u003C\/a\u003E, but the thing is \u2013 they\u2019re just an association, with no authority and no ability to fine companies that abuse customer rights. And you have to pay them to help you, while all they can offer you is a consultation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDigitalisation\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA Dutch guy who heard that we live in Germany joked \u201coh, so you\u2019re coming from the past?\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen I got my first German credit card (first available after six month living here, before that I could only get an EC-Karte that was useless anywhere abroad), it came with a leaflet, declaring that is has a brand new, shiny, modern, super-\u00fcber-comfortable feature: \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/fear-of-the-paypass\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-computer-speaker\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E PayPass\u003C\/a\u003E \ud83d\ude12\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPayPass is a thing that I already had in my first debit card when I was 13. PayPass is a thing I was always taking for granted. But no. Most Germans still have no idea you can pay contactlessly. After a long, long adaptation period, at least the cashiers know that it\u2019s possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey usually don\u2019t know, however, that you can pay with your phone with an NFC chip. One thought that my husband has to be trying to scam her, and she threated to call the police on him. Seriously.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere was a wind of hope last year \u2013 Vodafone introduced a service called Wallet, basically the NFC payments, like Android Pay. This year they are rolling back completely, because people didn\u2019t use it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENetto, a chain of supermarkets, has three (yes, only three) markets in Germany with an option of self-service cash check out. It\u2019s only for testing of how it would be received. And well, it\u2019s not being received well \u2013 queues to the remaining cashier-operated registers got longer, while the self-service stands are usually empty. Which makes it really fast for me to make groceries there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to technology, Germany is in the third world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDubbing\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGermans put dubbing over every movie and series they can. Trying to find a movie in OV (original version) in a German cinema might be really hard sometimes. Even though I\u2019m fluent in both English and German, watching an English movie with a German (or Polish) dubbing is a total go-no for me. It just sounds fake. It doesn\u2019t match the dynamics of the film at all. (With a noble exception of dubbed animated movies, of course). I had to cancel my \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.maxdome.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Maxdome\u003C\/a\u003E (German Netflix) subscription, because crappily dubbed movies was all they offered.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why it usually takes Germans a couple of months more to prepare a premiere of a new movie \u2013 we can watch them only after the rest of the world already forgot about them. That\u2019s also one of the reasons why Germany isn\u2019t that good at English.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EEnglish\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYou might have thought that Berlin is international and multilingual. Well, sure, in one sense. During a short subway ride you could hear like twenty different languages, either from tourists or residents. But try to use English in a shop (outside of Mitte, of course). Or try to run an errand in B\u00fcrgeramt, Finanzamt or a bank without speaking German. There\u2019s almost no way. One of my employment contracts was bilingual, but the other was German-only (for an English-speaking job). I can\u2019t imagine signing that, if I didn\u2019t know German.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor comparison: in the Netherlands you seem to be able to do anything in English. Employment contract, official paperwork, shopping, anything. And it\u2019s not even their official language (except in Dutch Caribbeans).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course I\u2019m learning Dutch anyway, but you know... It already felt like home, even just after first arriving there, when you\u2019re able to communicate with anyone freely. Shouldn\u2019t English be a given in our modern, globalised world?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EPhone is the boss\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a person who worked for a couple of start-ups trying to digitalise Germany (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/campsy.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Campsy\u003C\/a\u003E,\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/caterwings.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Caterwings\u003C\/a\u003E,\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.zinsgold.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Zinsgold\u003C\/a\u003E,  \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vendomo.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Vendomo\u003C\/a\u003E, ...), I know how big of a struggle that is. Germans are used to communicating over the phone and reluctant to change it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI, on the other hand, have a strange phobia of calling someone I don\u2019t know on the phone. Especially if it\u2019s in German (which I really prefer in writing) and if my signal reception is crappy (damn you, 1\u0026amp;1!). Sometimes you write someone an email (and maybe even explicitly select \u201cemail\u201d as a preferred contact method in a contact form) and they still call you back on the phone \u2013 only to complain about my shitty reception and to present me an offer that I could mishear, I could forget, and that I have no written record of.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut nothing can beat the situation that my husband had. He sent someone an email asking for an appointment. They asked him to call. But the next day he was around the place, so he just came over. The girl at the desk told him they only make appointments on the phone. So he did call her, literally standing two meters away \u2013 and he did, indeed, get an appointment this way. What the actual fuck?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022text-center my-4\u0022\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\u0022640\u0022 height=\u0022360\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QoScZopb020\u0022 frameborder=\u00220\u0022 allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOh, and some institutions love physical mail just as much as the others love phones. For instance our health insurance \u2013 whenever I send them a question via email, they answer it via post. Which costs them money, costs the environment and makes me wait 2-3 more day for a response. Brilliant, isn\u2019t it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EHealth insurance\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI have praised the German healthcare system in \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/niemiecka-s%C5%82u%C5%BCba-zdrowia\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-people-carry\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E one of my blog posts\u003C\/a\u003E, but that was in comparison to Poland. If you look at it from the Dutch perspective, it starts to look really crappy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E~350\u20ac each month go from my salary to a health insurance company, plus another ~350\u20ac paid on the employer side, plus my husband had to pay 175\u20ac before we got married. In return we get a system when getting an appointment at a specialist usually takes about three months.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the Netherlands a similar level of coverage, for two people, will cost us 247\u20ac\/month. Seriously. And although we didn\u2019t see it yet with our own eyes, they say queues to a specialist aren\u2019t a problem over there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EMore?\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI could go on for quite a while, but I guess it\u2019s enough already. The point is clear, I think: as much as Germany is a better place to live than my country of origin, it can still be annoying as fuck.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe moved here looking for Ordnung, modernity, innovation... We got Berlin \u2013 total contempt for the rules, hipster-anarchy-squat-whatever culture, rude people and technological stagnation. Ich bin ja \u003Cstrong\u003Ekein\u003C\/strong\u003E Berliner. I\u2019m totally out of sync with \u201cthe spirit\u201d of this city.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s time to move on.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENederland, hier komen we!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["air conditioning","ausbildung","berlin","crap","dubbing","emigration","english","germany","health","health insurance","insurance","language","migration","movies","netherlands","phobia","phone","public transport","taxes","transport","transportation"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI need to rant.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve had enough of Germany. I know, I know, it\u2019s given me opportunities that I could never expect in my homeland of Poland, I\u2019ve spent amazing three years here, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/how-to-%C5%9Blub-jednop%C5%82ciowy-polak%C3%B3w-w-niemczech.lite\u0022\u003E I married the love of my life here\u003C\/a\u003E... But now it\u2019s not time for good stuff. Now it\u2019s time for a complaint.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u2019s (some of) the reasons why I want to move out from this country.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI need to rant.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve had enough of Germany. I know, I know, it\u2019s given me opportunities that I could never expect in my homeland of Poland, I\u2019ve spent amazing three years here, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/how-to-%C5%9Blub-jednop%C5%82ciowy-polak%C3%B3w-w-niemczech.lite\u0022\u003E I married the love of my life here\u003C\/a\u003E... But now it\u2019s not time for good stuff. Now it\u2019s time for a complaint.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u2019s (some of) the reasons why I want to move out from this country.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAusbildungssystem\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGermans don\u2019t care if you \u003Cem\u003Eknow\u003C\/em\u003E how do a job. Germans don\u2019t care if you already have \u003Cem\u003Eexperience\u003C\/em\u003E doing that job. There\u2019s just one thing they care about when deciding whether or not to hire you: your Ausbildung.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, ok, not necessarily. For high-level specialists it\u2019s skills that matter the most (but they probably have a degree anyway), and if you\u2019re happy with working without a contract or working your ass off at McDonald\u2019s or you simply have some luck \u2013 you can be fine without an Ausbildung as well. However, if you\u2019re a talented, clever, young person, speaking fluently in three languages, who emigrated right after their A-levels and didn\u2019t have a chance to start studies yet, but has ambitions beyond cleaning hotel rooms \u2013 it can be quite a while before your CV gets answered by anyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAusbildung is basically 3 years of working for a company, during which you \u201clearn\u201d how to do a given job. You\u2019re not an employee. You\u2019re not entitled to minimum wage, your working hours aren\u2019t regulated by law. The employer can theoretically abuse you as they wish. Why? Because if you get fired, you basically need to start all over again. Imagine working 10-12 hours a day for 500\u20ac\/month and after two years not being able to speak up, because those two years of sacrifice would get wasted.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso: if you need three years to learn how to be receptionist or a cashier in a supermarket, you\u2019re an idiot. It\u2019s not rocket science, it\u2019s not car mechanics, it\u2019s not IT. My husband was a fully self-sufficient, responsible and highly valued hotel receptionist after, like, two months or so of work. In Poland, a training for a cashier can take two days. Germans require a 3-year \u201ckaufmannische Ausbildung\u201d to handle that job.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u2019s funny about that (well, bittersweet) is that even the employers are suffering from this system \u2013 on their own wish. We\u2019ve heard some complaining how they can\u2019t find any workers nowadays... sure, the CVs are coming in huge numbers, but none of those people have Ausbildung, so \u003Cem\u003Ehow the hell am I supposed to trust them to use a cash register and talk to people?!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ERude people\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s a stereotype in Germany that Berliners are the most rude people you\u2019ll ever meet. You know how there\u2019s some truth to some stereotypes? That\u2019s definitely one of them.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u2019s start with smoking. Cigarette smoke is the stink I hate the most in the world. Not only is it nasty, it can also give you cancer. How could anyone force someone to breathe that shit in? \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/keiner-furzt-in-der-u-bahn.lite\u0022\u003E Of course, Berliners can\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNo smoking\u201d signs are totally ignored, the fire hazard of open fire in a subway station is totally ignored, the common decency of not producing cancerogenous stench when you\u2019re in a crowd of people who cannot go away is not an issue anyone worries about. Seriously, I\u2019ve wasted a ticket to the second day of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pyronale.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Pyronale\u003C\/a\u003E because during the first day I \u003Cstrong\u003Eliterally couldn\u2019t breathe\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/frische-luft_big.png\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/frische-luft_mini.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Frische Luft in Berliner S+U-Bahnh\u00f6fe: 31% Stickstoff, 19% Sauerstoff, 50% Zigarettenrauch\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022290.84112149533\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut it\u2019s not only smoking. For instance, recently my husband got shouted at for \u201cfollowing\u201d some lady \u2013 while he was walking \u003Cem\u003Ein front of her\u003C\/em\u003E. People can\u2019t learn to stick to the right side when walking slowly up or down narrow stairs. They don\u2019t even think of taking off their backpack when it\u2019s crowded in the subway, or about letting people \u003Cem\u003Eout\u003C\/em\u003E of the train first, before they start squeezing in. Those are things that 5-years-olds are learning! There\u2019s plenty of situations that make you doubt human decency and basic intelligence. I almost forgot that cars letting pedestrians through on a crossing is a thing \u2013 in one day in Rotterdam it happened to me more times than in three years in Berlin.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ETransportation\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of transport and of comparing Berlin to Rotterdam: In the latter it\u2019s trams, bikes and pedestrians who are first-class citizens. Berlin is clogged with cars. In Rotterdam I saw half-empty parkings in the city centre! What I didn\u2019t see was idiots (pedestrians or cars) blocking a bike lane, which in Berlin or Szczecin is a sad norm.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDo you think air conditioning in public transportation should be a given in modern cities of the 21st century? If you\u2019re coming to Berlin, think again. Not even the newest models of U-Bahn or S-Bahn trains have (or are planned to have) AC. Busses do, but it\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.berliner-woche.de\/steglitz\/sonstiges\/fahrgaeste-spueren-klimaanlage-in-bvg-bussen-kaum-d32312.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E usually set up in a way, that you can\u2019t really feel that it\u2019s colder\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of newest models... Did you know that Berlin still uses wagons from 60s and 70s that are also what \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyongyang_Metro#Rolling_stock\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E the Pyongyang Metro is using\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt all makes them slow. They are unable to send trains in 1-2 minutes intervals, like they do in Warsaw or Madrid. They are unable to go fast, like a subway should. To both my current and previous job, the comute by bike (with all the lights, traffic, crappy bikelanes) takes roughly the same time as by subway (you know, with engines and designated tunnels just for the trains).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBVG is old, rusty and unpunctual. They don\u2019t see any problem whatsoever with \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/u-bahnmusikanten-verpisst-euch.lite\u0022\u003E annoying musicians\u003C\/a\u003E or stinking people in their trains. Basically the only thing they do right is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BVG_Kampagne\/status\/938003895560884226\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E laughing at themselves for being this crappy\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EConstant construction\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) is already known in the world for being constantly unfinished. Billions have been spent on it, but the opening date keeps getting pushed forward and forward. I think it would be fair to say it\u2019s the biggest waste of money in Germany\u2019s modern history.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking of airports: the two that Berlin currently has (and both to be replaced by BER) are both on tops of all the rankings of worst airports in the world. Whoever has flown from Sch\u00f6nefeld to, well, anywhere, will be able to give like tens reasons why SXF sucks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to less significant constructions, it\u2019s still not impressive. For instance the U-Bahn station I live near to. How long can it take to renovate a simple subway station? In Berlin, apparently, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BismarkDaisy\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E 2,5 years already\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BismarkDaisy\/status\/940549607242784768\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E and nobody really knows when is it going to be done\u003C\/a\u003E. But maybe let\u2019s not talk about the whole station. How long would it take to renovate a single entrance to a subway station? Nothing fancy, no escalators, no art, no fancy design, just some stairs with ~30 steps. I didn\u2019t count exaclty, but half a year is my lowest estimate. Seriously.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EApartment crisis\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERent prices in Berlin are skyrocketing, growing ~20% every year. No wonder: lots of people are coming, but hardly any new living spaces are being built. The city is huge (my daily commute is about one hour, without even leaving the city boundries), but it\u2019s unbelievably short. Berlin has virtually no skyline, no skyscrappers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDon\u2019t people want to built them, live and work in them? Sure, many do. But even more don\u2019t, including the Senate of Berlin claims \u201cit\u2019s not in the spirit of Berlin to build high\u201d. They are fighting like lions to protect the \u201cspirit of Berlin\u201d, which seams to mean crappiness, unimpressive buildings and horrible rent prices.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EPost\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeutsche Post and DHL are crap. Me and my husband weren\u2019t able to collect each other\u2019s mail before the wedding, even though we signed a relevant authorisation, twice. I can\u2019t even count the number of times when a package wasn\u2019t even attempted to be delivered \u2013 just marked as \u201creceiver not at home\u201d and left at the post office (and yes, we were home, we even saw the delivery guy from the balcony).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s not any specific post office, by the way. We had to visit at least five different post offices, some of which were kilometers away, because they were, apparently, all responsible for the deliveries to our address. And sometimes they were dropping my package at a shop ~500 m away, claiming that shop is our \u201cneighbour\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve sent plenty of formal complaints to them about situations like this. How many were answered in any meaningful way? Just one. Only because I was especially furious \u2013 they forced me to rent a car, so I could bring some balcony furniture home from a far away post office. I specifically ordered it online with home delivery to avoid problems with transport. But why would they care about doing their job? They didn\u2019t even attempt delivery, just made me pick it up myself. So how did they react to my complaint? They gave me a 10\u20ac voucher for sending packages (which I never do, so it expired already).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBTW, what the fuck is the big deal with apartment numbers in Germany? In Poland, Netherlands or US people simply have numbers on their doors, mailbox and intercom. Germans aren\u2019t convinced by that idea. So when a mailman wants to deliver something, they need to scan all the mailboxes or walk door to door to find the correct receiver. In Poland they could just think \u201cok, appartment 40, there\u2019s five doors on each floor, so it would be on the 8th floor\u201d \u2013 and that\u2019s it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere only the surname matters. So having multiple families called \u201cM\u00fcller\u201d in one building is problematic, having multiple people with different surnames sharing an apartment is problematic, delivering stuff is problematic, picking up stuff is problematic, moving out is problematic.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ENotice periods and customer rights\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA notice period of three months is crazy \u2013 at least from the customer\/employee side. But Germans seem to love it (it\u2019s the legally allowed maximum for services).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd as much as I can understand it for contracts like employment or rent (where the other party needs time to find a replacement for you), what sense does it make in case of mobile phone or gym membership? None, except for them counting on you to miss the deadline and automatically prolong your contract for another year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt kills flexibility and it kills my trust in the honesty of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.1und1.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E 1\u0026amp;1\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/superfit.club\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E SuperFit\u003C\/a\u003E etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen I was fighting with \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/mysn-schenker-kurwa-ma%C4%87-de.lite\u0022\u003E Schenker\u003C\/a\u003E for my right to warrantee service I came to a sad discovery: while Poland has a special government agency that supports customer rights and helps in the cases like mine, Germany does not. They do have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.verbraucherzentrale-berlin.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E  Verbraucherzentrale\u003C\/a\u003E, but the thing is \u2013 they\u2019re just an association, with no authority and no ability to fine companies that abuse customer rights. And you have to pay them to help you, while all they can offer you is a consultation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDigitalisation\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA Dutch guy who heard that we live in Germany joked \u201coh, so you\u2019re coming from the past?\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen I got my first German credit card (first available after six month living here, before that I could only get an EC-Karte that was useless anywhere abroad), it came with a leaflet, declaring that is has a brand new, shiny, modern, super-\u00fcber-comfortable feature: \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/fear-of-the-paypass.lite\u0022\u003E PayPass\u003C\/a\u003E \ud83d\ude12\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPayPass is a thing that I already had in my first debit card when I was 13. PayPass is a thing I was always taking for granted. But no. Most Germans still have no idea you can pay contactlessly. After a long, long adaptation period, at least the cashiers know that it\u2019s possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey usually don\u2019t know, however, that you can pay with your phone with an NFC chip. One thought that my husband has to be trying to scam her, and she threated to call the police on him. Seriously.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere was a wind of hope last year \u2013 Vodafone introduced a service called Wallet, basically the NFC payments, like Android Pay. This year they are rolling back completely, because people didn\u2019t use it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENetto, a chain of supermarkets, has three (yes, only three) markets in Germany with an option of self-service cash check out. It\u2019s only for testing of how it would be received. And well, it\u2019s not being received well \u2013 queues to the remaining cashier-operated registers got longer, while the self-service stands are usually empty. Which makes it really fast for me to make groceries there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to technology, Germany is in the third world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDubbing\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGermans put dubbing over every movie and series they can. Trying to find a movie in OV (original version) in a German cinema might be really hard sometimes. Even though I\u2019m fluent in both English and German, watching an English movie with a German (or Polish) dubbing is a total go-no for me. It just sounds fake. It doesn\u2019t match the dynamics of the film at all. (With a noble exception of dubbed animated movies, of course). I had to cancel my \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.maxdome.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Maxdome\u003C\/a\u003E (German Netflix) subscription, because crappily dubbed movies was all they offered.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why it usually takes Germans a couple of months more to prepare a premiere of a new movie \u2013 we can watch them only after the rest of the world already forgot about them. That\u2019s also one of the reasons why Germany isn\u2019t that good at English.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EEnglish\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYou might have thought that Berlin is international and multilingual. Well, sure, in one sense. During a short subway ride you could hear like twenty different languages, either from tourists or residents. But try to use English in a shop (outside of Mitte, of course). Or try to run an errand in B\u00fcrgeramt, Finanzamt or a bank without speaking German. There\u2019s almost no way. One of my employment contracts was bilingual, but the other was German-only (for an English-speaking job). I can\u2019t imagine signing that, if I didn\u2019t know German.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor comparison: in the Netherlands you seem to be able to do anything in English. Employment contract, official paperwork, shopping, anything. And it\u2019s not even their official language (except in Dutch Caribbeans).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course I\u2019m learning Dutch anyway, but you know... It already felt like home, even just after first arriving there, when you\u2019re able to communicate with anyone freely. Shouldn\u2019t English be a given in our modern, globalised world?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EPhone is the boss\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a person who worked for a couple of start-ups trying to digitalise Germany (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/campsy.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Campsy\u003C\/a\u003E,\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/caterwings.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Caterwings\u003C\/a\u003E,\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.zinsgold.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Zinsgold\u003C\/a\u003E,  \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vendomo.de\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Vendomo\u003C\/a\u003E, ...), I know how big of a struggle that is. Germans are used to communicating over the phone and reluctant to change it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI, on the other hand, have a strange phobia of calling someone I don\u2019t know on the phone. Especially if it\u2019s in German (which I really prefer in writing) and if my signal reception is crappy (damn you, 1\u0026amp;1!). Sometimes you write someone an email (and maybe even explicitly select \u201cemail\u201d as a preferred contact method in a contact form) and they still call you back on the phone \u2013 only to complain about my shitty reception and to present me an offer that I could mishear, I could forget, and that I have no written record of.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut nothing can beat the situation that my husband had. He sent someone an email asking for an appointment. They asked him to call. But the next day he was around the place, so he just came over. The girl at the desk told him they only make appointments on the phone. So he did call her, literally standing two meters away \u2013 and he did, indeed, get an appointment this way. What the actual fuck?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022text-center my-4\u0022\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\u0022640\u0022 height=\u0022360\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QoScZopb020\u0022 frameborder=\u00220\u0022 allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOh, and some institutions love physical mail just as much as the others love phones. For instance our health insurance \u2013 whenever I send them a question via email, they answer it via post. Which costs them money, costs the environment and makes me wait 2-3 more day for a response. Brilliant, isn\u2019t it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EHealth insurance\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI have praised the German healthcare system in \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/niemiecka-s%C5%82u%C5%BCba-zdrowia.lite\u0022\u003E one of my blog posts\u003C\/a\u003E, but that was in comparison to Poland. If you look at it from the Dutch perspective, it starts to look really crappy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E~350\u20ac each month go from my salary to a health insurance company, plus another ~350\u20ac paid on the employer side, plus my husband had to pay 175\u20ac before we got married. In return we get a system when getting an appointment at a specialist usually takes about three months.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the Netherlands a similar level of coverage, for two people, will cost us 247\u20ac\/month. Seriously. And although we didn\u2019t see it yet with our own eyes, they say queues to a specialist aren\u2019t a problem over there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EMore?\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI could go on for quite a while, but I guess it\u2019s enough already. The point is clear, I think: as much as Germany is a better place to live than my country of origin, it can still be annoying as fuck.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe moved here looking for Ordnung, modernity, innovation... We got Berlin \u2013 total contempt for the rules, hipster-anarchy-squat-whatever culture, rude people and technological stagnation. Ich bin ja \u003Cstrong\u003Ekein\u003C\/strong\u003E Berliner. I\u2019m totally out of sync with \u201cthe spirit\u201d of this city.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s time to move on.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENederland, hier komen we!\u003C\/p\u003E","words":2935,"readTime":12,"lang":"en"}}},"projects\/avris-stringer":{"key":"projects\/avris-stringer","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2018-01-10T19:12:52+01:00","publishedAt":"2018-01-10T19:10:00+01:00","group":null,"links":[{"icon":"brands gitlab","colour":"primary","url":"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Avris\/Stringer","displayUrl":null}],"category":"projects","subcategory":null,"slug":"avris-stringer"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"avris-stringer","title":"Avris Stringer","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/avris-stringer_small.png\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022320\u0022\u003E                \n                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As a language. As an idea I love it from all my heart! \u2764\ufe0f\nThat message of unity, peace and understanding though a common language! That brilliance of simplification and unification!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut I\u2019ve always seen it advertised as \u201cextremely simple\u201d. Simple indeed, but \u003Cem\u003Eextremely\u003C\/em\u003E? 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As a language. As an idea I love it from all my heart! \u2764\ufe0f\nThat message of unity, peace and understanding though a common language! That brilliance of simplification and unification!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut I\u2019ve always seen it advertised as \u201cextremely simple\u201d. Simple indeed, but \u003Cem\u003Eextremely\u003C\/em\u003E? You can certainly do better!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAlphabet\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEsperanto has five characters that annoy me way more than they should:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022blockquote ml-4 pl-4 border-left\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0109 \u011d \u0125 \u0135 \u015d\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt might have looked like a good idea to add those neat diacritics back in the times when you mostly wrote by hand. But in the age of computers having any non-latin characters in your alphabet is just annoying \u2013 with all the switching of keyboard layouts, with those damn non-UTF8 encodings, with some people replacing \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0109\u003C\/strong\u003E with the ugly \u003Cstrong\u003Ecx\u003C\/strong\u003E and others with \u003Cstrong\u003Ech\u003C\/strong\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd also: who \u003Cem\u003Ereally\u003C\/em\u003E cares about the difference between \u003Cstrong\u003Eh\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0125\u003C\/strong\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ENouns\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey aren\u2019t in any way better or simpler than in natural languages. Such a missed opportunity! Especially for the words used \u003Cem\u003Eso\u003C\/em\u003E often. Just look:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022table-responsive\u0022\u003E\u003Ctable class=\u0022table table-bordered table-center\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003E\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Esingular\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Eplural\u003C\/th\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003E1st person\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003Emi\u003C\/td\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003Eni\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003E2nd person\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Evi\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth rowspan=\u00223\u0022\u003E3rd person\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Emasculine\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003Eli\u003C\/td\u003E\n        \u003Ctd rowspan=\u00223\u0022\u003Eili\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Efeminine\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003E\u015di\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Eneuter\/epicene\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003E\u011di\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Eindefinite\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Eoni\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Ereflexive\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Esi\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough they describe people and things (=substantives) they have nothing to do with the substantive \u003Cstrong\u003E-o\u003C\/strong\u003E suffix. And the plural doesn\u2019t seem to stem from the singular at all.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EApparently, it\u2019s necessary to distinguish between three 3rd persons, depending on their gender (as if someone\u2019s gender was relevant at all in most of the contexts...), but only as long as it\u2019s one person. And for the 2nd person even the singular\/plural distinction stops being relevant, for some reason.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ESexism\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is an \u003Cstrong\u003E-ino\u003C\/strong\u003E suffix for substantives that indicates femininity of a person. Which implies in a way, that all the human-describing substantives are \u003Cem\u003Emale by default\u003C\/em\u003E, and it takes a special effort to express such a \u003Cem\u003Erarity\u003C\/em\u003E as a woman...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAccusative\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey say it\u2019s nice to have at least those two cases (Nominative and Accusative) in order to distinguish between phrases like \u201cPeter killed the lion\u201d and \u201cThe lion killed Peter\u201d. Except, you know... I just did it \u2013 in English, which has (almost) no cases anymore. You can easily tell, who killed whom. The word order is the key. And if you really want to start with the object, not the subject, (say, for emphasis), just use the passive voice: \u201cThe lion was killed by Peter\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven in Polish, which has seven grammatical cases and not that strict rules regarding word order, messing up with this order can result in \u003Cem\u003Estrange\u003C\/em\u003E sounding sentences. Cases aren\u2019t really as useful as they seem to be.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn why would you even want so highly flexible word order anyway? It might be fun for shorter, simpler sentences, but the more complex ones would become incomprehensible, regardless of the number of hints that are given by cases.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDefinite article\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI never really got that concept. Why does it matter so much, if I\u2019m talking about something new and indefinite or something known and specific? Most of the time it\u2019s \u003Cem\u003Ereally\u003C\/em\u003E obvious from the context, isn\u2019t it? And when it\u2019s not, we can just add \u201csome\u201d or \u201cthis\u201d. Which is exactly the way that Polish does it. And it works just fine.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EPlural adjectives\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA \u201ccute guy\u201d is \u201cbeleta ulo\u201d. To make it plural, we can\u2019t just pluralify the substantive: \u201cbeleta ulo\u003Cstrong\u003Ej\u003C\/strong\u003E\u201d makes no sense in Esperanto. Only \u201cbeleta\u003Cstrong\u003Ej\u003C\/strong\u003E ulo\u003Cstrong\u003Ej\u003C\/strong\u003E\u201d does. Cause, you know, nothing says \u201csimplicity\u201d like duplicating the same information twice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAdverbs\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGerman does just fine with adjectives simply acting as adverbs, depending on whether they describe a substantive or a verb, whereas Esperanto necessarily needs to distinguish them. You know, for simplicity\u2019s sake.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ENumerals\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPositional notation is awesome! Way simpler than Roman numerals or other systems that humankind came up with in the past. A digit can have a different value depending on its position in a number. Brilliant!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen writing a number down, digits (grouped by three\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-1\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-ref-1\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[1]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E for convenience) and their positions are basically all we need to accurately represent it. But when saying a number out loud, in most languages we have to additionally emphasise the positions with verbal indicators: thir\u003Cstrong\u003Eteen\u003C\/strong\u003E, twen\u003Cstrong\u003Ety\u003C\/strong\u003E, five \u003Cstrong\u003Ehundred\u003C\/strong\u003E and so on. We end up with oral system not really being consistent with the written one.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, the numerals in Esperanto are already way simpler than in most natural languages, more consistent and lacking in exceptions, but one obviously can do better.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ESo what?\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENot much. I just wanted to say that Esperanto disappointed me a bit. I really wanted to learn it (back when I was maybe 15?). But in the process I realised that it\u2019s \u003Cstrong\u003Ejust not as much fun\u003C\/strong\u003E as I expected. Its sound isn\u2019t really to my taste, it\u2019s grammar isn\u2019t such a piece of cake as everybody advertised it to me, it\u2019s not a magical \u201cfree\u201d language that just slips into your mind as you go. I do understand it quite well, without trying \u003Cem\u003Ethat much\u003C\/em\u003E, but I wouldn\u2019t say I have any considerable motivation to actually learn it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause, let\u2019s not kid ourselves, Esperanto isn\u2019t that \u003Cstrong\u003Euseful\u003C\/strong\u003E either... It has way fewer speakers, way smaller influence and significance than it deserves to have. (Yeah, I might not like it, but I do admire its achievements and wish it the best!). There is \u003Cem\u003Esome\u003C\/em\u003E practical purpose in learning Esperanto, but way to little to keep me interested.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat I do enjoy, however, is creating my own conlangs. Not as a competition with Esperanto, not with any aspirations for a world auxiliary language... Just because, just for fun. And I\u2019ve recently got back to working on my old project that stems from my adventure with Esperanto. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKeep fingers crossed that I finally finally finish it \ud83d\ude00\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Chr\/\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022small\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-ref-1\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-1\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[1]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E or not three, depending on a language\u003Cbr\/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["artificial","complexity","conlang","contructed","difficulty","ease","esperanto","grammar","language","simplicity"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/flag-esperanto_small.jpg","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/flag-esperanto_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/flag-esperanto_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Esperanto flag\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022159.9375\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI don\u2019t really like Esperanto. As a language. As an idea I love it from all my heart! \u2764\ufe0f\nThat message of unity, peace and understanding though a common language! That brilliance of simplification and unification!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut I\u2019ve always seen it advertised as \u201cextremely simple\u201d. Simple indeed, but \u003Cem\u003Eextremely\u003C\/em\u003E? You can certainly do better!\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/flag-esperanto_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/flag-esperanto_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Esperanto flag\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022159.9375\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003E\n                    \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/flag-esperanto-language-symbol-1208849\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csmall\u003Epixabay.com\/en\/flag-esperanto-language-symbol-1208849\u003C\/small\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n                \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI don\u2019t really like Esperanto. As a language. As an idea I love it from all my heart! \u2764\ufe0f\nThat message of unity, peace and understanding though a common language! That brilliance of simplification and unification!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut I\u2019ve always seen it advertised as \u201cextremely simple\u201d. Simple indeed, but \u003Cem\u003Eextremely\u003C\/em\u003E? You can certainly do better!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAlphabet\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEsperanto has five characters that annoy me way more than they should:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0109 \u011d \u0125 \u0135 \u015d\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt might have looked like a good idea to add those neat diacritics back in the times when you mostly wrote by hand. But in the age of computers having any non-latin characters in your alphabet is just annoying \u2013 with all the switching of keyboard layouts, with those damn non-UTF8 encodings, with some people replacing \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0109\u003C\/strong\u003E with the ugly \u003Cstrong\u003Ecx\u003C\/strong\u003E and others with \u003Cstrong\u003Ech\u003C\/strong\u003E...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd also: who \u003Cem\u003Ereally\u003C\/em\u003E cares about the difference between \u003Cstrong\u003Eh\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0125\u003C\/strong\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ENouns\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey aren\u2019t in any way better or simpler than in natural languages. Such a missed opportunity! Especially for the words used \u003Cem\u003Eso\u003C\/em\u003E often. Just look:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ctable class=\u0022table table-bordered table-center\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003E\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Esingular\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Eplural\u003C\/th\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003E1st person\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003Emi\u003C\/td\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003Eni\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003E2nd person\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Evi\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth rowspan=\u00223\u0022\u003E3rd person\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Emasculine\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003Eli\u003C\/td\u003E\n        \u003Ctd rowspan=\u00223\u0022\u003Eili\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Efeminine\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003E\u015di\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth\u003Eneuter\/epicene\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd\u003E\u011di\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Eindefinite\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Eoni\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n    \u003Ctr\u003E\n        \u003Cth colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Ereflexive\u003C\/th\u003E\n        \u003Ctd colspan=\u00222\u0022\u003Esi\u003C\/td\u003E\n    \u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough they describe people and things (=substantives) they have nothing to do with the substantive \u003Cstrong\u003E-o\u003C\/strong\u003E suffix. And the plural doesn\u2019t seem to stem from the singular at all.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EApparently, it\u2019s necessary to distinguish between three 3rd persons, depending on their gender (as if someone\u2019s gender was relevant at all in most of the contexts...), but only as long as it\u2019s one person. And for the 2nd person even the singular\/plural distinction stops being relevant, for some reason.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ESexism\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is an \u003Cstrong\u003E-ino\u003C\/strong\u003E suffix for substantives that indicates femininity of a person. Which implies in a way, that all the human-describing substantives are \u003Cem\u003Emale by default\u003C\/em\u003E, and it takes a special effort to express such a \u003Cem\u003Erarity\u003C\/em\u003E as a woman...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAccusative\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey say it\u2019s nice to have at least those two cases (Nominative and Accusative) in order to distinguish between phrases like \u201cPeter killed the lion\u201d and \u201cThe lion killed Peter\u201d. Except, you know... I just did it \u2013 in English, which has (almost) no cases anymore. You can easily tell, who killed whom. The word order is the key. And if you really want to start with the object, not the subject, (say, for emphasis), just use the passive voice: \u201cThe lion was killed by Peter\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven in Polish, which has seven grammatical cases and not that strict rules regarding word order, messing up with this order can result in \u003Cem\u003Estrange\u003C\/em\u003E sounding sentences. Cases aren\u2019t really as useful as they seem to be.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn why would you even want so highly flexible word order anyway? It might be fun for shorter, simpler sentences, but the more complex ones would become incomprehensible, regardless of the number of hints that are given by cases.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EDefinite article\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI never really got that concept. Why does it matter so much, if I\u2019m talking about something new and indefinite or something known and specific? Most of the time it\u2019s \u003Cem\u003Ereally\u003C\/em\u003E obvious from the context, isn\u2019t it? And when it\u2019s not, we can just add \u201csome\u201d or \u201cthis\u201d. Which is exactly the way that Polish does it. And it works just fine.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EPlural adjectives\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA \u201ccute guy\u201d is \u201cbeleta ulo\u201d. To make it plural, we can\u2019t just pluralify the substantive: \u201cbeleta ulo\u003Cstrong\u003Ej\u003C\/strong\u003E\u201d makes no sense in Esperanto. Only \u201cbeleta\u003Cstrong\u003Ej\u003C\/strong\u003E ulo\u003Cstrong\u003Ej\u003C\/strong\u003E\u201d does. Cause, you know, nothing says \u201csimplicity\u201d like duplicating the same information twice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAdverbs\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGerman does just fine with adjectives simply acting as adverbs, depending on whether they describe a substantive or a verb, whereas Esperanto necessarily needs to distinguish them. You know, for simplicity\u2019s sake.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ENumerals\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPositional notation is awesome! Way simpler than Roman numerals or other systems that humankind came up with in the past. A digit can have a different value depending on its position in a number. Brilliant!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen writing a number down, digits (grouped by three\u003Ca href=\u0022#ftn-1\u0022 id=\u0022ftn-ref-1\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E[1]\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E for convenience) and their positions are basically all we need to accurately represent it. But when saying a number out loud, in most languages we have to additionally emphasise the positions with verbal indicators: thir\u003Cstrong\u003Eteen\u003C\/strong\u003E, twen\u003Cstrong\u003Ety\u003C\/strong\u003E, five \u003Cstrong\u003Ehundred\u003C\/strong\u003E and so on. We end up with oral system not really being consistent with the written one.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, the numerals in Esperanto are already way simpler than in most natural languages, more consistent and lacking in exceptions, but one obviously can do better.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ESo what?\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENot much. I just wanted to say that Esperanto disappointed me a bit. I really wanted to learn it (back when I was maybe 15?). But in the process I realised that it\u2019s \u003Cstrong\u003Ejust not as much fun\u003C\/strong\u003E as I expected. Its sound isn\u2019t really to my taste, it\u2019s grammar isn\u2019t such a piece of cake as everybody advertised it to me, it\u2019s not a magical \u201cfree\u201d language that just slips into your mind as you go. 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